Manchester United vs Real Madrid (Pre-season Friendly)

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Great pace, very good creativity. We're clearly pissing Madrid off which is delightful.

Everyone is playing well for the most part. Herrera made a couple of poor balls early on but perhaps he was uptight with the large crowd. He settled down and made a good account of himself. Rooney needs to be better and Valencia is showing absolutely no signs of changing under van Gaal's guidance, which is really unbelievable.
 
Mali_Zeus said:
Did Rooney touch it?

Great stuff! Young, what happened to you. :D
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It was Rooney's goal.
Btw just on the record please I don't want young sold if he keeps working hard and smooth like that. What a difference I feel about him within a few months.
 
FromTheBench said:
Wtf are people moaning at Zaha about ?

He's high risk high reward player right now but got into dangerous positions 3 times already.
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He gave the ball away on all occasions, by holding on to it for too long.
 
Great first half. I'm really surprised with how much our ball retention and pressing has improved in a short space of time. I think Fletcher has been our most impressive player this pre-season.
I am one of Young's staunchest critics and even I'm pleased with his display this half.

The only criticisms I have for the first half are:
1) Rooney and Mata seem to have a good understanding but I feel Rooney and Welbeck (in particular) could provide more diagonal runs in behind the defense offering Mata more options with the through-ball.

2) Valencia needs to attempt to beat his man and provide more chances from the wing

3) Although extremely harsh I think Zaha has no brain when 1v1 against a defender. He had a chance to get a goal but couldn't decide what to do which then Pepe easily defended. Yeah I know he was only on for a couple of minutes.
 
Dazzmondo said:
He's missed chances to pass the ball and has dribbled into defenders. Tbf, the're good defenders, but still, he's losing the ball.
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He beat the defender with his strength and movement once to create the space in the first place.

I think sometimes he needs to stop trying to skin good defenders every time but he has just came on.
 
Sam said:
Agree 100%
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Rooney's passing has been pretty good so far under LVG as well, but at the same time I don't see RVP not starting. Given Wazza's and van Persie's injury history, Welbeck will log plenty of minutes anyways.

I also like how Welbeck has put pressure on the defenders and midfielders in the games so far, really using his athleticism there.
 
nokillingmoths said:
Are we missing RVP though? With Rooney in this form, will his return actually unbalance the first team, with no real pace in a front 3 of Rooney, him and Mata. I like DW being in there, adding his pace to the creativity offered by the other two (shame he got injured!). Will be interesting to see how that affects things, real shame LVG hasn't had the pre season games in the USA to figure that out.
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Good point, in fact very good point. I am a huge fan of RVP but this feels more balanced, quicker, hard to defend. Interesting times, indeed.
 
GRon said:
He gave the ball away on all occasions, by holding on to it for too long.
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Because he's the attacking player and is up against their defenders, of course he's going to give the ball away. Do you even watch football...
 
YUNITED said:
3) Although extremely harsh I think Zaha has no brain when 1v1 against a defender. He had a chance to get a goal but couldn't decide what to do which then Pepe easily defended. Yeah I know he was only on for a couple of minutes.
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Spot on. Agree 100%. :cool:
 
Ronaldo's English actually seems to have improved somewhat since he left us. Strange. Less time around Rooney maybe?
 
I gotta be up at stupid O'clock so i'm missing this match but i'm glad Young is doing well!
Him and Cleverley seem to have found new life under LVG long may this continue!
 
Ringo 07 said:
With every passing game the mystery as to how David Moyes ever got close to this club grows and grows. The 8th wonder of the world.
Every time England fail at the world cup - the players get blamed for not being technical enough.....But it's extremely obvious that too many dinosaur coaches in England are to blame...You'd think with the millions of pounds that the likes of Moyes and Hodgson get each year for working that they would actually try and study a little about modern football methods in their free time instead of insisting on rigid forms of 442 that were popular 20 years ago in England with small teams like Wimbeldon to grind out results against better teams
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LvG to manage England one day? :drool:
 
Best Half of football ive seen united play in a long time. Thank god for rivers as Sony Six here are useless
 
MyNameisJanuzaj said:
Well most of the Caf thought it was the squad we lost our 3 most experince in defense and let we look 10 times better it's obvious it was Moyes and the crap he came out with I only started July 1st look what LVG has done after starting 15 days later, we look comfortable on the ball press well.
Going to be an exciting season Fletch as been class
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Evra wasn't a defender to be honest. ;)
 
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